Downtown Ann Arbor | Susan J. Demas
In December, Ann Arbor’s Guaranteed Income to Grow program sent its last payment to the 100 participants in the city’s two-year pilot program. Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, which designed and implemented the program, has now released its report on the findings from the first year. It shows that after one year of the monthly payments, there were “no statistically significant differences in experiences of food, housing, and utility security between the groups who did and did not receive the extra $528 a month.”
Despite that, there have been important gains from the guaranteed income program, the study’s principal investigator, Kristin Seefeldt, an associate professor of social work and public policy at the University of Michigan, explained, in providing a financial cushion for those in the program…